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By ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, M.A., Ph.D., D.C.L. 
of the University of North Carolina 



Delivered before the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association at i1 

Nineteenth Annual Session, held at Raleigh 

November 20-21, 1920 



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. V\ (Reprint, 1920, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association) 

North Carolina Women in the World War 

By Archibald Henderson, M.A., Ph.D., D.C.L. 

of the University of North Carolina 

When the Secretary of War called upon the women of America to 
do their part in winning the war, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw asked Mr. 
Baker what he expected the woman's committee to do. "We want you 
to co-ordinate the woman's work of the United States," said Mr. 
Baker, "all the war work of the women, so that they will not duplicate, 
they will not overlap and they will co-operate in carrying out every 
requirement of the government." Perhaps Mr. Baker feared that it 
would be impossible to get women to co-operate ; so Dr. Shaw promptly 
replied : 

"Mr. Secretary, you seem to think that the women will not co-operate ; 
that is because you have been dealing with men. If you will give them 
an object big enough and put back of them an incentive strong enough, 
you will find that the women of this country will co-operate, Mr. Secre- 
tary." 

Today it is recognized, not only that the women fully maintained 
their pledge of co-operation from the war's beginning to its end, but 
also, as Dr. Shaw says, none too strongly, that the war could never 
have been won if it had not been for the work of the women. Cer- 
tainly it is true that the women of this country suffered no such hard- 
ships, bore no such burdens, as were imposed by dire necessity upon 
the women of many other countries. But their readiness to serve to 
any extent was absolute; and within the limits of the situation, they 
gave themselves fully and without stint. The massed effort of many 
millions of women, energies bent to a single aim, is without parallel 
in history; and the extent and magnitude of that effort, ever growing 
in volume and intensity, were curtailed only by the comparative brevity 
of the war's duration. 

Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was designated by the President as Chair- 
man of the Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense; and 
of the seventy-five presidents of the largest women's organizations in 
the United States was formed the Advisory Committee of the Woman's 
Committee, Council of National Defense. This Woman's Committee, 
Council of National Defense, was then organized in every State in the 
Union under the direction of the National Woman's Committee. The 
plan proposed and carried out was "to co-ordinate women's organiza- 
tions and their working forces, in order to enlist at once the greatest 
possible number in the service which the national crisis demanded, and 
to supply a new and direct channel of communication and co-operation 



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"between the women and the departments of the United States Govern- 
ment. " The fundamental idea was that this organization was to he a 
clearing house for all women's war work, and not a new organization 
meeting in competition with other organizations. 

The leader in this work in North Carolina was Mrs. Laura Holmes 
Reilley, of Charlotte, second vice-president of the General Federation 
of Women's Clubs ( National), who, on May 28, 1917, received a com- 
mission from the Governor of North Carolina, appointing her a mem- 
ber of the State Council of Defense. She was shortly afterwards desig- 
nated Chairman of the "Woman's Committee of the Council of National 
Defense; and was the intermediary for maintaining the closest and 
most friendly relations between the State Council and the Woman's 
Committee, herself being, with the exception of chairman and secretary, 
the only member present at all the meetings of the State Council. The 
work was mapped out on large and constructive lines, the division of 
the organization being effected by counties and Congressional Districts, 
and the mere enumeration of the departments indicates the magnitude 
and comprehensiveness of the services rendered, covering, as they did, 
almost every phase of social service. 

The foremost function of the Woman's Committee, it must be made 
plain, was local, co-ordinative and directive. Forces were set in motion 
in countless directions and through innumerable channels for carrying 
on the various phases of patriotic endeavor, and these forces made 
themselves powerfully felt in every corner of the State. During the 
first thirteen months of its work 11,358 North Carolina women formally 
registered for service, in consequence of which many government posi- 
tions were filled and many women put in touch with the proper authori- 
ties for specific war work. North Carolina's slogan in food production 
was "A Garden for Every Home the Year Around" ; and the food pro- 
duction of the State was immensely stimulated through this and other 
powerful agencies, being four times greater in 1917-18 than in the 
year preceding. The work in food administration was so vital and 
integral a factor in war work in this state that I shall speak of it later 
in greater detail. In all their work the devoted women "sanctified the 
daily duties by the spirit of sacrifice and of patriotism." In these organ- 
izations throughout the nation ten million women concentrated their 
fruitful energies upon the labor asked for by the Government, which 
went far to bring victory to our arms. 

There was fortunately already in existence an organization which 
furnished the readiest outlet and avenue for woman's sacrificial and 
maternal ministration to crusading and suffering humanity. This was 
that noble and consecrated band, the American National Red Cross, 



which, judged by its realities no less than by its ideals, truly deserves 
to be called sublime. With perfect fitness it has been called "the greatest 
mother in the world," seeking to draw "a vast net of mercy through an 
ocean of unspeakable pain." From Belgium and from France went up 
one of the most poignant appeals to which a stricken world has ever 
lent ear. It is estimated that 1,250,000 people in Belgium and France 
alone were driven from their homes by the German invasion. During 
the height of our own struggle, ten million human beings looked to us 
for sustenance and for raiment — helplessly hemmed in behind the brist- 
ling wall of German bayonets. Is it any wonder, then — though wonder 
indeed it be! — that with this clamant appeal added to the urgent call 
of our own great needs, the membership of the National Red Cross 
leaped within fifteen months from less than a half million (486,194) 
to more than twenty millions (20,468,103), with the additional member- 
ship of eight millions in the Junior Red Cross. Of refugee garments, 
hospital supplies and garments, knitted articles and surgical dressings, 
the American Red Cross furnished during the war to the value of 
upwards of one hundred millions of dollars, and the American people, 
through this channel, gave in money and materials for the world's 
relief upwards of $50 millions of dollars. 

The Southern division of this great organization, including women 
of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee, 
contributed a mighty share in the total result — producing more than 
ten million articles (10,390,796), valued at a total of considerably more 
than three million dollars (3,187,233). In this connection I wish to 
stress the impressive demonstration, at once of women's efficient can- 
vassing and of North Carolina's patriotism, afforded by the Second 
Red Cross War Fund Drive (1918) — North Carolina's quota being 
$608,500, and her total collections $1,135,621.39— practically double the 
amount. The official report which has recently reached me from the 
Southern Division, Atlanta, includes every finished article made and 
sent to this division from North Carolina, and numbers a total of 
2,339,907 articles. 

Figures, I must confess, have always had a certain fascination for 
me. But when I think of what these figures represent of hardship 
gladly suffered, of sacrifice willingly made, they become symbolic with 
the vitality of human greatness. 

Everywhere throughout North Carolina women found an outlet for 
patriotic service through Red Cross organizations to the number of 140 
Chapters, 360 Branches, and 250 Auxiliaries. These raised the total 
sum of $2,052,800.94 — including the amounts raised in the First ($318,- 
606.47) and Second ($1,135,621.39) Red Cross Drives, and the amount 



other than War Funds collected ($598,573.08). No less patriotic was 
the Junior Red Cross, with its 210 Auxiliaries and 41,667 members in 
>.orth Carolina, for in addition to many other articles and funds sup- 
plied and services rendered, it contributed a total of 10,229 articles for 
hospitals and for soldiers' and sailors' wear. 

One of the most valuable services performed by these chapters, because 
of the immediate needs and far-reaching results, was the work of the 
Home Service Sections, which were organized by well-nigh every chap- 
ter in the State. Only twelve of the chapters had trained workers- the 
remainder had untrained, volunteer workers. How many a sick or dis- 
abled soldier, how many a despairing wife, how many a destitute family 
were aided by these angels of mercy! Cut these figures and they will 
bleed: between October 1, 1917, and August 1, 1919, 22,599 families 
m North Carolina have been assisted by Home Service Sections in 
various ways, and $29,309.47 has been given or loaned in money relief 
to these families. 

And how shall I find words to tell the romantic story of the Canteen 
Service m North Carolina during the Great War! Where all towns 
were ready and willing it seems invidious to mention those specifically 
set down m the official report because of their relation to lines of traffic 
In North Carolina, with some 800 workers engaged, a million men were 
served. But if I have hitherto deluged you with figures I shall spare 
you now a catalog of the tens of thousands of gallons of coffee, hundreds 
of thousands of sandwiches, iced drinks, slices of cake, packets of candy 
and bundles of fruits-not to mention the millions of cigarettes-with 
which the doughboys were deluged, to the delight of their hearts and the 
gratification of their palates. 

If time permitted I would gladly say something of the devoted work 

of the individual chapters of the Red Cross in the State. A word only 

of this chapter or that is possible; but the patriotism, devotion and 

service of a 1 were alike, and, alike, unquestioned. Lieutenant House 

will eventually narrate the full story and give due credit to each and all 

hermit me to say, however, that the canteen work of the Raleigh chapter 

was probably without a parallel in North Carolina; for up to July 1, 

iyi9, the Raleigh Canteen served 255,000 American soldiers. The 

devoted work of these women-in snow and ice, heat and cold, at noon 

and at midnight-under the leadership of Mrs. J. J. Bernard, is now 

a part of North Carolina's history; and thousands of soldiers will never 

forget the cheer, the comfort and the sympathy which they dispensed. 

I cannot refrain from paying tribute in passing to the indefatigable 

At WMr CrUS " din S enthusiasm of the president of this great chapter, 
-Mrs. William B. Grimes. 



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The campaign for contributions by tobacco growers, engineered by 
such chapters as Goldsboro, Reidsville and Pitt County, for example — 
each tobacco grower being asked to contribute a pile of his crop — were 
particularly characteristic of this section, as was also the campaign for 
cotton which was carried out successfully by the Cleveland County 
chapter. And I cannot leave unmentioned the letter (24 Rue Borghese, 
Neuilly, February 12, 1916) written by King Albert's sister, Henriette, 
Duchess of Vendome, to some ladies of Tryon, thanking them "for 
the splendid gifts you have so generously sent, and we all express our 
warmest, most heartfelt thanks to the 'Florence Nightingale Band.' 
Your charity is helping us to tend our poor men — all 'grands blesses/ 
May God bless and reward you for the good and generous help sent to 
our dear and valiant men." If time permitted I would gladly tell of 
the memorable war work of the women's colleges in North Carolina — 
of the State Normal College, the recognized leader among North Caro- 
lina colleges in organizing and stimulating women's war work, through 
which more than 400 women passed on their way into government 
service; of the many women's colleges of Raleigh which were among 
the foremost in their pledge and their performance; of the Greensboro 
College for "Women, Salem Academy and College, and many others, too 
numerous to enumerate. 

Certain features of the work accomplished by the women of North 
Carolina are so conspicuous, indeed I may almost say spectacular, in 
value and efficiency, that I feel impelled to speak of them in some detail. 
I have already spoken of the Red Cross War Fund Drives; but para- 
mount even to these in importance were the great Drives for Liberty 
Loans and the Fifth, the Victory Loan, imperatively needed for carry- 
ing on the work of the government itself and supplying the very sinews 
of war. The National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, created by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, began its business as the first and only 
executive committee of women in the Government of the United States. 
The organization was not effected in time to do active work in the 
First Liberty Loan Drive; but by the time the Second Liberty Loan 
Drive was launched North Carolina was ready to stand side by side 
with other States to do her part. Mrs. R. J. Reynolds, of Winston- Salem, 
was State Chairman during the Second Liberty Loan Campaign; and 
upon her resignation immediately thereafter, Mrs. R. H. Latham, of 
Winston-Salem, was appointed to undertake the heavy task. Mrs. 
Latham held the chairmanship through the Third and Fourth Drives, 
after which she was compelled to resign because of overtaxed eyesight. 
Mrs. John A. Long, of Kinston, succeeded Mrs. Latham and served 



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through the Victory Loan Drive. The figures which follow are eloquent 
of the spirit of North Carolina and of the devoted labors of her women 
to aid the goverment to full extent of their powers. 

Second Libeety Loan 

Total Number of Subscribers 4,22& 

Total Amount Subscribed $4,846,900 

Third Liberty Loan 

Total Amount Subscribed $7,887,750 

Amount Subscribed by Women $823,100 

Fourth Liberty Loan 

Total Quota $39,900,000 

Amount Subscribed Through Women $14,129,300 

being 35 per cent of the whole. 

Fifth, or Victory Loan 

Total Number of Bonds Sold 9,281 

Total Amount Subscribed $7,576,500 

No figures, however impressive, can tell the truly thrilling and touch- 
ing story of this splendid outburst of patriotic fervor. I, personally, 
have known a farmer of small means, ordinarily saving to miserliness, 
go to the bank with face positively lit as by an inner flame and cheer- 
fully borrow a thousand dollars on his little farm to invest in War 
Savings Stamps. Mrs. Long tells me of an old woman who joyously 
invested her entire life-time savings in a hundred-dollar bond, buying 
it with a thousand dimes unearthed from an old jug buried beneath the 
floor of her little cottage. While it is true that the women were not 
especially organized in the War Savings Campaigns, we all know that 
they did magnificent local work in personal canvass and in giving in- 
spiration to the general movement. Says Mr. F. H. Fries, State 
Director, War Savings Campaign: "To the women of North Carolina 
acknowledgement must be made for their most excellent service to the 
War Savings Cause. Club women, school teachers, home demonstration 
agents, housewives — they all fell into the work heart and body. Mrs. 
Clarence Johnson, President of the North Carolina Federation of 
Women's Clubs, was constantly promoting War Savings. A large ma- 
jority of the War Savings societies was organized by women. Thrift 
gardens were the special care of country women. During the June Drive 
a colored woman in Warren County, a school teacher, by herself 



secured $1,500 in pledges. Without the women's aid the War Savings 
record of North Carolina would he far short of what it is." 

A conspicuous and remarkable feature of the work of North Carolina 
women in the Great War, indicative of the type of service women are 
most particularly qualified to render, was their participation in War 
Camp Community Service. Its bases were sound and permanent, for 
peace as well as for war ; and were solidly laid by organizations funda- 
mentally concerned in play, outdoor and recreational activities for the 
American youth. The War Department Commission on Training 
Camp Activities summoned the Playground and Recreation Association 
of America to develop and organize social and recreational resources in 
the neighborhood of training camps (May 9, 1917) ; and from this 
action sprang the incomparable War Camp Community Service. As 
Miss Margaret Berry, an efficient laborer in this service, well says: 
"The insignia of the organization, the Red Circle, soon became to the 
service men of the army and navy as the beacon light to the mariner, 
and the War Camp Community Service slogan 'Surround the Camp 
with Hospitality/ was literally enacted in more than 600 American com- 
munities." The national budget for the year ending October 31, 1919, 
was $15,000,000 ; and in the 300 or more Red Circle club houses, some 
2,500,000 uniformed men were provided with sleeping accommodations 
in 1918 alone. 

In North Carolina, perhaps the most extraordinary, ^prolonged and 
unceasing efforts to entertain the soldiers and to surround them with 
the influences of home, were made at Charlotte, the city nearest Camp 
Greene, which had during its existence numbers of soldiers ranging from 
two thousand to sixty thousand. During the late autumn of 1917, for 
example, the ladies of Charlotte entertained repeatedly at home meals 
on Sundays between 3,000 and 4,000 soldiers from Camp Greene. But 
equally devoted and faithful work was done at Raleigh, Wilmington, 
Fayetteville and Southport, though on a somewhat lesser scale because 
of smaller bodies of soldiers encamped nearby; and the work of the 
women of Asheville was of a peculiarly memorable type, especially 
in the form of ministrations and gifts to the sick soldiers at Kenilworth, 
and other rest and recuperative locations. The W. C. C. S. at Raleigh, 
Charlotte and elsewhere were along similar lines — various forms of 
entertainment afforded the soldiers: concerts, movies, dances, the hos- 
pitality of city clubs, city churches and Red Circle Clubs supplying 
libraries of books and magazines to the soldiers, and in general throwing 
around the boys in the camps the home atmosphere of fireside, friend- 
ship and innocent enjoyment. In this brief survey I regret that space 
does not permit me to take account of innumerable individual and cor- 



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porate acts of hospitality, such as the gifts of the ladies of Statesville 
to Camp Greene, the work of the women through the churches, notably 
the memorable work at the Church of the Good Shepherd, "first to 
provide for Camp Polk, last to stop." Particular record should be 
made of the fine work of Miss Mary F. De Vane as Director for North 
Carolina of the American Library Association. In addition to one 
thousand dollars in money raised for the purchase of books, twenty-five 
thousand volumes were collected and distributed to the soldiers and 
sailors in this country and abroad. It was "a wonderful collection of 
beautiful books and a credit to the State." 

Mr. Herbert Hoover asserted again and again, "Pood will win the 
war." The story of the able work of the Food Administrator is a 
familiar one to all of us; and in the Home Demonstration work and 
Girls' Clubs, Mrs. Jane McKimmon has attracted the admiring eyes 
of the nation to this State. Mrs. Maude Radford Warren's glowing 
account of that work, which appeared in The Country Gentleman, 
must speak in lieu of any extended account of my own. The magni- 
tude of Mrs. McKimmon's labors is evidenced by her report for 1918, 
during which year 8,807 food demonstrations were given and 8,250 
meetings held, with an attendance of 826,283 people. In the organized 
clubs 16,663 women and girls did intensive conservation work, and as 
additional club workers there were 4,744 colored women organized in 
twenty counties. Exclusive of the unprecedented amount of work in 
the conserving of foodstuffs, vegetables and fruit, carried on by the can- 
ning clubs, there were 132 community canneries in operation in 1918, 
with an approximate output of 357,688 cans; and during the same year 
a total of 228,903 pounds of fruit and vegetables dried is reported. I 
must leave to others to tell the stirring stories of home demonstration 
work in the mill villages, the work among the colored people, the per- 
ennial campaign for gardens. Of all the figures at my disposal perhaps 
the most impressive and significant are these, for the year 1917, when 
sixty counties had been organized : 

Number girls reporting 14,382 

Number cans 8,778,262 

Value of products $2,179,262 

Total cost $544,843 

Total profits $1,634,519 

Mention deserves to be made of the devoted work of the North Caro- 
lina women who served as County and City Food Administrators; and 
I have particularly in mind Mrs. Chamberlain for "Wake, Miss "Walker 
for Scotland, and Mrs. Young for "Winston-Salem. 



Another band of splendid workers who rendered valiant service at 
home and abroad was the Young Woman's Christian Association, so 
enthusiastically sponsored and energetically aided in its work by Mrs. 
Josephus Daniels. Of knowledge and pride to every North Carolinian 
was the honor paid to Mrs. Thomas W. Bickett in being chosen one of 
the commissioners sent by the Y. W. C. A. to Europe to study at "The 
Front," the needs and problems of the people during reconstruction. 
Upon her return Mrs. Bickett made forceful speeches in many parts of 
the State, pushing with extreme activity and vigor the work of the 
Y. W. C. A. in North Carolina. 

In connection with women's work during the war I must not forget 
to mention their business and executive work, as illustrated, for exam- 
ple, by Miss Harriet Berry, of Chapel Hill, who during the two years' 
absence of Col. Joseph H. Pratt in the army, was acting head of the 
North Carolina Geological Survey, Secretary of the North Carolina 
Good Roads Association, chairman for women in Orange County for 
the four Liberty Loans, and Chairman of the Committee on Women 
in Industry, North Carolina Council of Defense. 

It is too soon for me, or for anyone, to paint in true colors or give 
in even measurable exactitude, any account which would do justice to 
the blessed and merciful work of the nurses who labored in the camps 
and hospitals, here or abroad, who went forward into the deadly danger 
zones, and with the calmness of beings from some higher realm per- 
formed their services of beneficence, their errands of mercy, to the ac- 
companiment of the cannon's roar. Up to October 1, 1918, the A. R. C. 
alone enrolled during the war more than 30,000 nurses, and more than 
400 served in England, France, Italy, Russia, Greece and Palestine. 

Many nurses went into national service from this state; their names 
will forever constitute an especial roll of honor. Two medical units 
of special service and distinction went from this state, one under Dr. 
Addison Brenizer, of Charlotte, and the other under Dr. John Wesley 
Long, of Greensboro. An excerpt from the account of Base Hospital 
No. 65, kindly supplied me by Dr. Long, Lieut. Col. M. C, U. S. A. 
(Ret.), will give a vivid picture of this splendid type of service: 

"Base Hospital No. 65 was organized by the writer, with the assistance 
of some other medical men under authority granted directly by the Surgeon 
General of the United States Army. One of the requirements specified by 
the War Department was that the personnel be secured from North Carolina. 
Whereupon we enlisted 32 medical officers, 203 enlisted men, and 100 nurses. 
It required unremitting work for many months. Ninety per cent of the 
nurses were North Carolinians, a few for certain reasons having been secured 
from elsewhere. They were all mobilized at one of the nurses' bases in 



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New York City. They were then sent in a body to France where they joined 
Base Hospital 65 at Kerhuon, near Brest, where it remained from early in 
September, 1918, to August, 1919. 

"The work accomplished by this unit, an important part of which was the 
work done by the nurses, has gone down in the history of the War Depart- 
ment as one of unexcelled value. The Hospital handled over 40,000 patients. 

"Directly after the unit reached its location and before it was possible to 
get things in working order because of the lack of conveniences, 2,200 desper- 
ately sick patients from the transports were sent to this hospital. At this 
time there were no electric lights, only ordinary oil hand-lanterns and flash- 
lights were available. There were no walks between the buildings, of which 
there were over one hundred. The nurses had to wear rubber boots and 
wade through rain and slush. Remember that Secretary Baker said that it 
rained at Brest 330 days in a year. The hospital eventually had a capacity 
of 4,000. 

"At the time mentioned the buildings, which were of the Swiss barracks 
type, were being erected. None of them were fully equipped; many of them 
did not have even windows, and many of the beds did not have mattresses. 
One hundred nurses and 200 enlisted men were of necessity compelled to 
look after this large number of sick and dying men. Some of them were 
dying and the others dead when they moved them from the stretchers upon 
which they came. The hospital handled wounded men (blesse, as the French 
say), cases of influenza, pneumonia, pleurisy, cerebro-spinal menengitis, and 
insanity. It was a task for the stout-hearted and called for the best that 
there was in a nurse to be called upon for such heroic service under such 
trying circumstances. 

"For instance, one night about midnight a storm swept up the harbor 
of Brest striking the hospital, which was at the head of the harbor, with 
full force. The roof of one of the barracks containing twenty-five operative 
cases was lifted off. Out into the darkness and rain and storm the officers, 
men and nurses rushed to the rescue of the helpless patients. The engineer 
corps was called out to prop up the sides of the building to keep it from 
collapsing. Through this trying ordeal the nurses never flinched, but stood 
by us. to the last with a loyalty and helpful sympathy that was beyond com- 
parison. 

'In October, 1918, the Chief Surgeon of the American Expeditionary Forces 
called upon Base Hospital No. 65 for two operating teams to be sent to the 
front. This called for a highly trained operating room nurse for each team. 
For this important and hazardous duty I selected two splendid North Caro- 
lina girls. They went with their teams as assigned and spent many weeks 
in active duty close to the firing lines and within sound of the big guns." 

I desire to make mention, at least — though it deserves extended treat- 
ment — of the desperate fight waged by the women and the doctors of the 
state against the insidious and deadly "Spanish Influenza." I would 
pay immortal tribute to Miss Elizabeth Koper, situated at Chapel Hill, 
who at the height of the influenza epidemic gave up a remunerative 
position as trained nurse in a private family to minister to the Uni- 
versity hoys, making the supreme sacrifice of her life for her country. 



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North Carolina has the honor of having produced the Great War's 
most famous field nurse, and after Edith Cavell, I believe, the nurse 
most celebrated in the despatches and stories of the war from its outset. 
This is the daughter of Dr. S. Westray Battle, of Asheville, Madelon, 
who was affectionately called "Glory" by her English friends, because 
of her pride of America; they declared she was always "waving 
Old Glory." 

At the very beginning of the conflict in 1914 she offered her services 
"for the duration of the war"; and while her husband, Colonel Han- 
cock, was serving under Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, with the 
British Army in Erance, she was giving untiring and valiant service 
in Belgium. Because of her wonderful work in the trenches and first- 
aid dressing stations as well as in the field hospitals, the Belgian soldiers 
named her "Sister Glory Hancock." Ever within the sound of the 
guns and frequently within their range, she stood unmoved amid showers 
of falling glass and splintered roofs; she saw hospital beds blown to 
fragments during the intense shelling to which the Germans subjected 
the Belgian towns. This noble woman who served under the British 
Red Cross, knew what it was — so steady was the stream of wounded 
after Mons and during the retreat from Antwerp — to go for a month 
without having her clothes off. "Sister Glory Hancock" had the great 
and fully merited honor of being decorated by both King George of 
England and King Albert of Belgium. With North Carolina in the 
field there was "Glory enough for all" — and all added to her glory — 
with the Croix Civique, the Order of Mons, the Croix de Guerre, and 
the badge of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. 

As we turn today to the heavy tasks of reconstruction and reorgani- 
zation of civil life, we cannot in justice forget the part played by women 
as civilians in the Great "War. And I look confidently forward to a time 
in the near future when, not as a reward, but as a recognition of justice, 
the women of North Carolina, and of America, shall receive equal 
civil, legal and political rights with their partners, men, in the great 
business of making the world a better place to live in. 



. TftRARY OF CONGRESS 

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